The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories

Contents:

The third person / Henry James —

The presence by the fire / H.G. Wells —

How it happened / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle —

A ghostly duel / Jack London —

The hand / Theodore Dreiser —

The Ghost of Down Hill / Edgar Wallace —

Honeysuckle Cottage / P. G. Wodehouse —

The old dark house / J.B. Priestley —

Sophy Mason comes back / E. M. Delafield —

In a glass darkly / Agatha Christie —

The bowmen / Arthur Machen —

The other side of the medal / Stella Gibbons —

Three lines of old French / A. Merritt —

The Lusitania waits / Alfred Noyes —

Vengeance is mine / Algernon Blackwood —

We are the dead / Henry Kuttner —

The escort / Daphne du Maurier —

The elf in Algiers / John Steinbeck —

The mirror in room 22 / James Hadley Chase —

Is there a life beyond the gravy? / Stevie Smith —

Sloane Square / Pamela Hansford Johnson -

The leaf-sweeper / Muriel Spark —

At the Chalet Lartrec / Winston Graham —

The love of a good woman / William Trevor —

The haunting of Shawley Rectory / Ruth Rendell —

Voices in the coalbin / Mary Higgins Clark —

A good sound marriage / Fay Weldon —

A self-possessed woman / Julian Barnes —

A programmed Christmas carol / John Mortimer —

A figment in time / Peter Haining.